[Pmwiki-users] More blue skye stuff...

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 11:25:01PM +0100, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote:
> !!Math for wikipages
> 
> I think the math editor in LyX is awesome, and in the end I was actually
> doing quite a bit of vector algegra using LyX for jotting down results
> (rather than using paper and pen...)  Anyway, I think it'd be really cool
> if we could make writing math on a wikipage as easy as writing normal
> text. However, I can't imagine "normal" people writing something that 
> looks like LaTeX as wiki markup, so a tool is needed.

Actually, a lot of people are quite comfortable with the math markup
in TeX and LaTeX.  A lot of my math colleagues at the university have
asked for this feature, and the Wikipedia has an implementation that
isn't too hairy.

The tricky part is making sure you have TeX available on the system
to be able to typeset the equations, and then a way to convert them to
images, MathML, or some other way of displaying them.

Pm